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The D'Vak Paradox
nrobbiec
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D'Vak is a puzzling character to me and one that definitely needs exploring more. He's the son of Alexander born at the earliest based on tie-in material 2375 and serving in the admiralty let's so the lowest end and as a commodore in 2410 (I think is when the Borg stuff takes place) that would mean at only 35 Earth years old he's reach flag officer level. Quite prestigious.
This leads us to a bigger problem regarding Klingons and the contradictory nature of their aging. Worf is described as entering Starfleet at 18 Earth yeards old or at the very least deciding he wanted to at 15 and then waiting until he was old enough after that point. However Alexander was serving in the KDF at 8 Earth years old. So was Worf bigger and older looking than all his classmates? Does Starfleet discriminate against species with different aging patterns? Does Worf's entire timeline from birth year need revising?
So did D'Vak only 1/8 Human so basically fully Klingon and presumably growing at the same rate have to wait until he was 18 Earth years old to enter the Academy and meteorically rise from there? The use of admiral and commanding the USS Houston leads me to conclude he is Starfleet as he would otherwise be a general and despite it being a joint task force against the Borg it was still a time of open warfare so the odds of allowing an enemy officer to command a new Odyssey class starship seem slim.
This leads us to a bigger problem regarding Klingons and the contradictory nature of their aging. Worf is described as entering Starfleet at 18 Earth yeards old or at the very least deciding he wanted to at 15 and then waiting until he was old enough after that point. However Alexander was serving in the KDF at 8 Earth years old. So was Worf bigger and older looking than all his classmates? Does Starfleet discriminate against species with different aging patterns? Does Worf's entire timeline from birth year need revising?
So did D'Vak only 1/8 Human so basically fully Klingon and presumably growing at the same rate have to wait until he was 18 Earth years old to enter the Academy and meteorically rise from there? The use of admiral and commanding the USS Houston leads me to conclude he is Starfleet as he would otherwise be a general and despite it being a joint task force against the Borg it was still a time of open warfare so the odds of allowing an enemy officer to command a new Odyssey class starship seem slim.
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That came from the novel The Final Reflection, and TNG dabbled with parts of it which is probably were the Alexander stuff came from before DS9 went the opposite direction lifespan wise.
That novel was probably the first time that Klingons were presented as honorable, and a lot of the Klingon culture presented in TNG and DS9 seems to have had its roots in that book, but the weird short lifecycle was not one of the elements that got canonized (in fact pretty much the opposite). In the book they only lived about fifty or sixty years but they matured in around ten years and remained in their prime until their last few years (though fusions could last a bit longer), but in DS9 they had almost Vulcan-like lifespans.
I mean assuming our character joined Starfleet academy at 18 and that officer course is 4 years, our character would be Fleet Admiral by 22-24 years old a good decade younger then D'Vak.
Personally I view anything beyond Captain as just being a game mechanic, I mean we're already CO what difference does any rank between Lt and Captain make really. Admirals and other Captains asking us to do everything makes a tiny bit more sense that way, though they should respect saviours of the universe more.
18 seemed to be implied to be Academy entry age in TNG The Drumhead.
Klingon paradox gets even worse when you consider Worf's story of being a 13 year old playing football with other children of the same age. I will not stop overthinking things until I can make them make sense.